Independent Activities:

Activity one:

Students collect different pictures of the object with silent e ending sounds from magazines. Students get to make a mini book and glue pictures they have collected. They will write the words in the bottom of the pictures.
Materials:
Cut, folded, and stapled 8 pages of paper into a book.
Magazines
scicorrs
glue

This is a good activity to be done in pairs, small groups or whole class.
If we are working with younger students or early English language learners then they would only glue the pictures and make the book. While if these are normal first or second grade students then they have to write a sentence with the words associated with that picture. While the students will disabilities could be helped in cutting the pictures or gluing it on the paper. In order to accommodate students with disabilities this activity can be changed with teacher providing pictures that student glue to the book that already have the names printed on it.

Activity Two:


WORD SORTS: Have students divide a sheet of paper in half lengthwise and then
make two categories: short vowels and long vowels. List the following words on the board
and have them sort the words into the correct categories. Or put the words on reusable
index cards and have students take turns sorting the words at a learning center.
From Here Comes Silent E!: bit, bite, kit, kite, glob, globe, plan, plane, man, mane,
cap, cape, cub, cube, tub, tube, van, vane, can, cane, pin, pine, not, note, cod, code,
ton, tone, hop, hope, hat, hate, mad, made, tap, tape, cap, cape, mat, mate, can, cane,
fad, fade, gap, gape, rat, rate, bit, bite, fin, fine, hid, hide, dim, dime, rip, ripe, mitt,
mite, spin, spine.
SAMPLE CHART

Long Vowels Short Vowels
spine spin
gape gap
cane can

Activity Three:


Memory card game

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These cards are copied from
http://bogglesworldesl.com/longvowelcards.htm and there are more this is a very good individual or pair activity and children can learn to spell and identify the words.


Activity Four:

Work Sheet Spelling.

http://bogglesworldesl.com/longvowelwords.htm

Lots of work sheets for spelling practice with different vowel sounds. This is a perfect short time independent activity can be used in conjunction with other activities, homework, and a revision activity.

Activity Five:

On this worksheet, kids change three-letter words with short vowel sounds to four-letter words with long vowel sounds by adding a silent "e." Children completing this worksheet practice spelling words with the vowel-consonant-e long-vowel pattern
http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/just-add-e-second/
Add an e to the end of these short vowel words to make new long vowel words.

Just Add Silent e worksheet.

tub------------------ tub_

can------------------ can_

pin-------------------- pin_

rob-------------------- rob_

cub------------------- cub_

kti--------------------- kit_

tap-------------------- tap_

man------------------ man_